Fate Music

Category: benefit

  • ca. November 1-2, 1970 fragments

    Having just posted on Janis’s wake, which is said to have taken place on 10/26/70, I find myself wanting to at least take a stand on a few other gigs which have left me a little befuddled over the years. The first involves a “First Annual San Francisco Halloween Marathon Festival of the Performing Arts”,…

  • Big Gigs, Little Ex Post Trace

    Garcia and Saunders mostly played Bay Area clubs. But every now and then, usually in connection with multiact benefit concerts, they played larger theaters, auditoriums and arenas. Examples include BCT for the United Farmworkers on 9/22/72, Winterland for unspecified Hells Angels on 10/2/73, and BCT again for Ethiopian famine relief (8/23/74) and, on 10/12/74, for…

  • JGB in Chumash Country: Campbell Hall, UCSB, February 5, 1977

    In my writeup of the Garcia Band’s 11/20/76 gigs at the Pismo Theatre, I noted that Jerry urged the crowd to come see ol’ Hoyt Axton in a couple of weeks. “He’ll be down here doin’ a benefit for Redwind, which is just a good scene, about forty miles from here, a lot of good…

  • A Party For Mother Earth

    It’s actually much, much prettier than it looks in this picture. New Riders headlining “A Party for Mother Earth”, benefiting the Bear Commune, Friends and Relations Hall, 660 Great Highway, June 3, 1971.

  • Greenpeace ‘No Nukes’ Benefit at the Old Waldorf: Reconstruction, April 23, 1979

    I wanted to love this, but I found very little that moved me. Maybe I was tired. LN jg1979-04-23.reconstruction.all.aud-composite.126927.flac1644 Reconstruction Old Waldorf 444 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 April 23, 1979 (Monday) – Early and Late shows composite auds flac1644 shnid-126927 –early show (10 tracks, 8 tunes, 92:26)– e-t01. announcement/crowd/tuning [0:52] e-t02. Get Up…

  • Reaching for the Gold Ring

    Uncle Bobo comes on about three minutes in, introduces the band, and they drop into a sublime “Crazy Fingers”, one of my favorite songs.

  • Benefits Page

    Pursuant to my own query of a year ago, I have posted my own list of Dead and Garcia benefits as a separate Google page at http://jgmf.blogspot.com/p/benefits.html. Additions and all that most welcomed! See also my posts tagged “benefit”. Here’s a quicky time series, if you are interested. Note that this will double count some…

  • Benefits

    Does anyone happen to have or know of a list of benefits played by the Dead/Garcia? Perhaps more realistically, does anyone have or know of a list of Rex Foundation concerts the Dead played? Update: I have constructed and posted my own list of benefits.

  • Jerry Band at the Pismo Theatre

    On Friday-Saturday, November 19-20, 1976, the Jerry Garcia Band played four improbable gigs at the stunning Pismo Theatre in foggy, salty, sandy, lovely little Pismo Beach, California. If you only know it from Bugs Bunny, I urge you to pass through it some time (though I have not done so in more than twenty years).…

  • Contradictions Are Fun

    The human spirit … is the favorite home of contradictions, indeed they do not seem to prosper or even find viable living conditions outside it. José Saramago, All the Names, p. 228 Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders were advertised to play the Matrix at 3138 Fillmore on Wednesday, March 3, 1971. But as far as…